New Nation, 23 April 1976

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  • 22 1 NewNation SINGAPORE Friday April 23, 1976 No. 1622 Price 20 cents M C. (P) 428/76 r r 3 NEW (£0) NATION COMMENT
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  • 198 1  -  By Richard Ho The Customs and Excise Department is studying proposals for an increase in admission prices of major cinemas showing first-run films. Shaw and Cathay Organisations want to increase front-stall prices from $1 to $1.25, back-stalls from $2 to $2.50 and circle from $3
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  • 119 1  -  By Bharathi Mohan Housekeepers in the Singapore Hilton yesterday recalled that Michael Culley. 49, had lived In fear of his wife whose hacked-up body was found In a steel trunk In a Cairnhill Court flat two days ago. Some of the hotel's staff said Culley, a
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  • 185 1  -  Motorists warned By Rav Dhaliwal The Registry of Vehicles today warned motorists that they can be booked for not giving way to pedestrians at traffic light crossings and road Junctions. They can be booked by the mobile squad for inconsiderate driving or driving without due care,
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  • 153 1 Reuter Karachi, Friday—GoCi Alauddin (left) of Pakistan scored an unexpected 10-8, 9-3, 9-0 victory over compatriot Mohlhullah Khan in the final of the world invitation squash tournament here last night. Alauddin, who beat world champion Geoff Hunt of Australia in the semi-final, has now upset the
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  • 301 1 Two killed, four hurt in Lisbon terror blast Reuter Lisbon, Friday Two Cubans were killed and four others wounded when a powerful bomb ripped through the Cuban Embassy here yesterday, a hospital spokesman said. The dead were named as Adrlana Corcho, 30, wife of a Cuban diplomat
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  • 50 1 Reuter London, Friday—Harold Wilson, who resigned as Prime Minister earlier this month, Is to become a knight, It was announced today. Mr. Wilion, 60 will become "Sir Harold"—a Knight of the Garter, the highest order of chivalry In the land and a personal gift of the monarch.—Reuter.
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  • 243 2  -  By K.K. Fong A 54-year-old clerk yesterday fought a dagger-wielding man inside a lift apd after a struggle along the corridor managed to drive him away. Anthony Lim, who'works at Tunas Building, saw the man following him Into the lift at Block 2, Lorong 7
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  • 134 2 Prices staged a recovery on the Stock Exchange of Singapore during the first 45 minutes of trading this morning after opening lower. The Initial downtrend an extension of yesterday's easier trading bias was believed sparked off by the weaker trend In overseas markets. BUSINESS DONE: First Section S.
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  • 32 2 The Minister for Finance, Mr. Hon Sul Sen, will attend the Inauguration of the Institute of Banking and Finance at International plaza. Anson Road on April 30 at 5 p.m.
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  • 30 2 The Ulu Pandan community centre youth group will hold a guitar competition on May 8 for enthusiasts between the ages of 15 and 30 years. For details, ring *****8.
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  • 19 2 The Jalan llwl Yoh Community Centre will hold a cake-making demonstration at Its premises tonight at 8 p.m.
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  • 424 2 The regular police do not think parttime national service S p e cial Constables can perform practical policing. This la because they are not given proper training and they are not motivated to perform their duties, according to the report of the Police Manpower Committee released
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  • 185 2 The People's Association's Chinese Orchestra has become the first musical group in Singapore to provide music accompaniment for a Hong Kong TV drama serial. According to Citizen, bulletin of the PA, the orchestra was selected because it was considered the best group in
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  • 290 2  -  By Eileen Tan Winning second prize Instead of first turned out to be a better deal for 21-year-old Diane Rice. Runner-up in the England-wide Office Olrl of the Year contest. Diane feels that her prize of a holiday in Bangkok and Singapore Is
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  • 77 2 Mrs. Jek Yeun Thong, wife of the Minister for Culture, will open a Jumble sale at the Queenstown Community Centre In Buller Terrace at 3.30 p.m. tomorrow. The sale, organised by the Centre's Women Bub-Commlttee, Is designed to raise funds for Its activities. Items on sale
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  • 29 2 The Young Women's Christian Association. Singapore, will celebrate its 101 st birthday with a dinner and dance at the Mandarin Hotel tomorrow at 8 p.m.
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    • 605 2 WHAT'S ON CAKE-MAKING demonstration at Jalan Hwi Yoh community centre at 8 p.m. BUFFALO BILL'S Wild West Show featuring American cowboys and Indians, at National Theatre. Showtime: 7 p.m. and 9.15 p.m. Tickets: $15, $10, $5. $3 from Cold Storage. C.K. T% n g and National Theatre. MOZART'S First Mass
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    • 20 2 Toto draw 32/76: Five oat of 49 25, 16. IS, 1, 49. Additional No: 36. Three Circles: 24, 48, 27.
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  • 8 2 Police reported 79 accidents yesterday. Four were serious.
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  • 157 3 The Government is to call for consultants to work on its plans for a centralised computer control system for traffic lirhts in the city area. According to a Min- istry of National Development spokesman, the consultants are required to check on specifications for the project, which
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  • 254 3  -  Dental Association investigates misconduct reports By Wang Look Fung The S 1 n g a pore Dental Association is investigating allegations of unethical conduct of several dental surgeons, including touting. Some members have allegedly written to companies offering fee schedules lower than those charged toy prac- tltloners
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  • 179 3 Plan by PA All community centres will soon have colour television sets in addition to their black-and-white sets "In the very near future," according to the People's Association. The latest issue of The Citizen, PA's bulletin, says the PA received 10 colour sets from a firm,
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  • 74 3 Kuala Lumpur, Friday The UMNO Youth Executive Council will meet on May 4 to discuss the preparations for its general meeting here on July 2. The meeting will be chaired by its vice-pre-sident Dato Mohamed Rahmat, who is also the Deputy Trade and Industry Minister. UMNO
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  • 602 4 State govt's bid to boost tourism Penanf, Thursday With the expansion of Bayan Lepas Airport here, the question that Is increasingly being raised among travel trade ci r cles is whether Singapore A 1 r lines will be given landing rights. The argument
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  • 282 4 Exercise LionWalk for 100 SAF: men in NZ For 100 BAF soldiers, It has been Exercise LionWalk for a month In New Zealand. They were on a company Infantry exercise the third group of 3AF soldiers to train there. The first batch went six years ago. Undertjush techniques, Jungle survival
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  • 96 4 An open invitation shooting meet organised by SAF to promote shoot lng as a sport Is now on at the Nee Soon Ranges. The meet, which started yesterday, will go on till tomorrow. Competition begins at 8 a.m. each day and ends at
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  • 53 4 Encik Ismail Wanjor has been elected president of the Jurong Ship yard managerial staff association. Other officials elected are: Messrs Ng Seng Joo (vice president), Loo Hak Lin (secretary), Sulodi B.S. Hamid (asst. secretary), Wong Sam Leng (treasurer), Hsu Wen Kuo (asst. treasurer), Ting Oln Sen and A.
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  • 122 4 Inchcapr Management Services Pte. Ltd., a subsidiary of the Inchcape croup, yesterday served retrenchment notices on 43 employees. A spokesman for the Singapore Manual and Mercantile Workers Union, which represents the employees, said the union was informed of the retrenchment early this month.
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  • 295 4 About 95 per cent of smokers can overcome the craving to smoke, if they really want to. This conclusion was reached by the Youngberg Memorial Hospital after it held a number of courses to help smokers kick the habit. Dr. Roger Heald, who Is
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  • 251 4 An NTUC research officer has called on the NTUC to liaise with the Prisons Department to assist former convicts find jobs. In a paper on NTUCs Involvement with young workers to be presented to the Second Triennial Delegates Conference later this month, Mr. M.
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  • 288 5 But Franjieh stands firm UPI Beirut, Friday Leftist forces, threatening to establish a revolutionary government, increased pressure yesterday for the resignation of President Suleiman Franjieh but the President gave no indication he would step down. The leftists said unless there was a new president In 10 days
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  • 185 5 Washington, Friday Secretary of State. Dr. Henry Kissinger, said yesterday that an "absolute precondition" for ties with North Vietnam is an accounting by Hanoi of US servicemen listed as missing in action. Hanoi should not think that the US needs relations with
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  • 26 5 AP Cape Town, Friday South Africa has made no decision to cut off military aid to Rhodessia, Prime Minister John Vorster told Parliament yesterday.
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  • 234 5 How gang raided sports club Reuter Melbourne, Friday Australia's "Great Bookie Robbers" used an ingenious peep hole system to crack security at an exclusive sporting club and steal an estimated Ass million ($l5 million), police said here yesterday. The peep hole, bored through the empty
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  • 97 5 Reuter Paris, Friday—A man claiming to be a former Khmer Rouge official has said here that he personally took part In the execution of 5000 people in Cambodia last September. Mr. Chong 80. who said he was a former Khmer Rouge political commlssalre, told
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  • 164 5 Reuter United Nations, Friday —The Security Council yesterday called on the Indonesian sovernment to withdraw without further delay all Its forces from East Timor. The United States and Japan abstained and Benin did not participate in the vote. The 12 other members of
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  • 228 5 AP London, Friday The Duke of Edinburgh, (right), who is known for being outspoken, went on a talk show on BBC Radio on Wednesday and confessed he found it "a little embarrassing" on his trips abroad to get complaints about British goods. "I get complaints
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  • 40 5 Reuter Moscow, Friday 80viet Communist Party leader Leonid Brezhnev yesterday reappeared after an absence of nearly seven weeks from the political limelight to attend a Kremlin rally marking the birthday of Lenin, founder of the Soviet state. Reuter.
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  • 326 6 Dr. K flays intervention UPI Washington, Friday Secretary of State, Dr. Henry Kissinger, warned yesterday that "irresponsible and impermissible" Soviet intervention in Africa remains a very dangerous element. He told a State Department news conference on the eve of his trip to Africa that the
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  • 229 6 UPI Bangkok, Friday. Thailand's police are sending Irma La Douce and her friends to live with their colleagues at remote outposts. Irma is a life-sited, nude, plastic, Japan-ese-made blowup doll. A police officer Involved in the programme says she and. her friends are almost
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  • 264 6 Reuter President Suharto yesterday urged the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to increase financial aid to developing countries. Speaking at the opening of the ninth meeting of the ADB board of governors here, President Suharto said one of the main problems of developing countries was the
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  • 28 6 AP Tokyo. Friday A Japanese motion picture company is making a film to cash In on the Lockheed scandal that has thrown Japanese politics into an uproar.—AP
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  • 259 6 Reuter Salisbury, Friday Prime Minister lan Smith will announce within 10 days plans to bring Africans into the Rhodesian government, a senior official said yesterday. Mr. Dennis Divaris, the government official responsible for party discipline, said Mr. Smith detailed his proposals at a four-hour
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  • 468 6  -  AMERICA JANE GASKELL You can Judge a man by the food he eats, according to psychologist Dr. Jack Leedy, at Cumberland Hospital, Brooklyn. He says that what you choose from a menu reveals your personality as follows... 'Someone who always chooses salad usually
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  • 52 6 AP London, Friday A computer at the Home Office, which runs Britain's police and prisons, "broke down under the strain" of too many pay changes and led the ministry to overspend last year by US$B.7B million ($21.8 million), a parliamentary watchdog committee on government spending said on
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  • 117 6 UPI TODAY is Friday, April 23, the 114 th day of 1976 with 252 to follow. THE MOON Is between Its last quarter and new phase. THE MORNING STAR Is Venus. THE EVENING STARS are Mars, Jupiter, Mercury and Saturn. Those born on this date are under the sign
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 204 6 WORLD WEATHER New York Sunny, 24-15 C. Headline: Egypt and China sign arms pact, hall closer ties. San Fran cisco Cloudy, 18-7 C. Headline: Consumer costs a good month. Rome Sunny, 199C. Headline: OH president shot seven times. Tokyo Cloudy, 1713C. Headline: National, private unions call oil railway strike. Moscow
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  • 516 7 Important politically but not in substance —report UPI Reuter Hong Kong, Friday There's more symbolism than substance in a military aid protocol signed between China and Egypt. China's strong vocal support for Egypt and her offer of aid following the abrogation by Egypt of a
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  • 216 7 Reuter Moscow, Friday The Soviet Union, in a statement which prompted a Chinese walk-out, said yesterday that countries which delayed putting detente into practice could worsen the International situation and cost the world dear. In the first Kremlin policy speech since President Ford dispensed with the word
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  • 49 7 AP Tokyo, Friday North Vietnam has sent to the south more than 1,600.000 tonnes of goods and raw materials, the official Vietnam News Agency reported yesterday. VNA's broadcast said the goods included rice, sugar, fuel, industrial equipment, fertiliser, medicine and 32 million metres of fabric.—AP
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  • 39 7 Reuter Cairo, Friday Egypt yesterday asked the Libyan ambassador in Cairo. Mr. Mllod El-Sedik Ramadan, to surrender a gun he used to break up an occupation of the embassy by Libyan students last Monday, the Foreign Ministry announced.
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  • 68 7 Britain's Queen Elizabeth bubbles with laughter as she is presented with a birthday gift by Sir John Smyth, president of the Victoria Cross and George Cross Associations. The presentation took place at a reception in the Waterloo Chamber at Windsor Castle, England, on Wednesday. The Queen,
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  • 43 7 Washington, Frl. President Ford predicted that Japan would accelerate its military rearmament in the future and said he would favour such action. He made the comment in an Interview at the White House with a group of radio reporters from Texas. UPI.
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  • 36 7 Reuter Athens Friday—Canadian Journalist Oerald Uttlng. released yesterday after being held by Palestinian commandos for three days, said on his arrival here last night from Beirut that it was a case of mistaken Identity.—Reuter.
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  • 144 7 Reuter Stockholm, Friday. Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman yesterday bade a bitter farewell to hl3 homeland, saying he was being forced Into living and working abroad because of harassment by Swedish tax authorities Mr. Bergman, 58, is now thought to be in Paris. The director,
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  • 379 8 Third World leaders generally realise the immensity of the population problem. But it is nowhere near solution in many developing countries. India, where years of persuasion and incentives have failed to bring down the birth rate, is considering compulsory sterilisation as well as fines
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  • WHISPERS By ISPY
    • 70 8 American First Lady Betty Ford who recently got her permit (or her citizen's band radio, is having a difficult time choosing her 1 d en 11 flcatlon name. Suggestions from fellow citizen band owners include "Apple Betty," "D. C. Dancer," "Queen Bee," and "Steady Betty." But
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    • 35 8 Overland across the sea Read this item in yesterday's morning paper: "Comex lr organising an overland expedition to the Philippines." Quipped a colleague: "I can Just see them go tramping across the sea-bed with aqua-lungs."
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  • 571 8 VOICE OF THE PRESS SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST A new Chinese diplomatic offensive against the Soviet Union is in the making, with some initial successes, in spite of the internal turmoil that has been brewing since the death of Mr. Chou En-lal. The biggest
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  • 61 8 Recently, when I was In the lift of Block 107, Telok Blangah. two boys Joined me In the lift and one of them tampered with the control box, threatening to stop it. I was worried. Fortunately. they did not carry out their threat. I was surprised
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  • 40 8 I am a student, and often don't get enough sleep at night because of barking dogs in nearby flats. These dogs are usually around Blocks 230, 231 and 233 of Lorong 8, Toa Payoh. SLEEPLESS STUDENT. Singapore, 12.
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  • 21 8 It will be greatly appreciated if the authorities will extend CSS Bervlce 8 Into Bedok New Town. COMMUTER, Singapore, 15.
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  • 645 8  -  FRIDAY WITH ALEX JOSEY ALEX JOSEY Thailand Is experimenting with parliamentary democracy at a time when serious doubts about the future of the system are being voiced in America, Britain, France and Italy. In the US there have been abuses. Congress now insists upon restricting
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  • 526 9  -  The Last Word by J.J. T a x i d r 1 vers—male dictions on their meter manipulating hands!— are no more my friends. For some months now they have been avoiding me. Despite their tendency to take the wrong turning, go a longer
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  • 945 9  -  SONNENFELDT DOCTRINE OF MORE ORGANIG TIES BETWEEN MOSCOW AND ITS ALLIES HAS SPARKED ANGER By John Morrison Reuter Vienna, Friday US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's top aide Helmut Sonnenfeldt has provoked a mixture of anger and embarrassed silence In Eastern Europe with
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  • 1048 10 / 11 This week. Rhodesia's uncert aln future took another turn for the worse when black nationalist guerrillas cut off the country's vital road and rail links with South Africa. New Nation today presents a special feature on recent de v e lopments
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  • 1081 10 / 11 NYT Naw York, Friday If Southern Africa drifts into war, it will involve guerrillas, regular troops, mercenaries and armed civilians who are prepared for a conflict that is likely to range from helicopter-borne assaults to the single shot In the night through a
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  • Page 10 / 11 Miscellaneous
    • 535 10 / 11 I®®* tfc. NEW NATION y MONEYWORDS Cut out and pin with other coupons. Posting instructions appear below Name (Mr./Mrs./Miss) Address FILL IN MISSING LETTERS ACROSS USING CLUES BELOW along dotted lines CLUES FOR CC-S 1. Vessel for puddings, etc 2. Portable timepiece 3. Presumably, a man begging to be given
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      • 574 12  -  Sundown scene u ith Jennifer Schoon Oomph—bags of it is what the Tudera Sisters have and they use it to advantage in their act at the Tiara Supper Club. Callfornians of Filipino ancestory, the girls are here direct from Las Vegas where they
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      • Article, Illustration
        477 13  -  Higgins and Eliza go on stage Theatre bv Violet Oon The first full theatre company to come to Singapore since 1972, the Watford Palace Theatre, has chosen a programme which will thrill theatre fans. On April 27 and 28, they will be performing Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice and
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      • 523 13  -  bachelor mEZSw girt Gloria Chandy There are lots of ways to trap a man. So I've been told by those of the visible talents and Invisible talons. One such creature I know swore that the way to a man's heart was through his stomach. So she
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  • 112 14 UPI Washington, Friday The US Commerce Secretary Elliot Richardson said yesterday he will attend a trade conference in South Korea next month to develop closer "economic and commercial" ties between the two natons. In the text of a speech at the Chicago World Trade
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  • 361 14 Bank steps in British interest rate raised to 10 pc Business News and Views Reuter London, Friday Heavy pressure on the pound sterling yesterday forced the Bank of England to take steps to Increase British interest rates. The British minimum lending rate is expected to go up today by one
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  • 152 14 IV7R. BORGE FREDERIKSEN, general manager of The Copenhagen Reinsurance, the largest reinsurer in Scandinavia, will be here on Monday for a threeday visit. He is also chairman of the Singapore subsidiary, Copenhagen Reinsurance (Far East). Bank of America has promoted MR. S.B. HO as assistant manager (operations
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  • Stock markets round the world
    • 251 14 Prices closed lower yesterday for the first time In five sessions In slowed-down trading on the New York Stock Exchange as traders cashed In on profits made during the previous (our sessions. The Dow Jones Industrial average, ahead more than three points at one time, was off 3.46
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    • 35 14 UPI Dow Jones closing averages on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday. 30 industrials 1007.71 (off 3.31), 20 transport 213.48 (up 0 59), 15 utilities 87.62 (off 0.15), 65 stock 307.63 (off 0.47).
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    • 204 14 Cloelng prices at 11.30 a.m. today (Australian time) on the Sydney stock exchange: ACI 130 133 ADC 42 48 Ampol Pet 57 58 Anl 100 105 APM 130 nil Bank NSW 610 616 Brambles 163 nil BHP 736 740 Boral 203 204 CRA 260 268 CSR 385 392 CIO
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    • 269 14 DBS-Daiwa Securities Int'l Ltd. Market continued bullish with 17 points gain in Dow Jones, mirroring the upswing in New York. Most export-re-lated light electricals and some cameras gained persistently and speculative anti -cancer drugs producers and machineries shot up. At the outset, sporadic buying pushed Telkoku Oil up strongly
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    • 27 14 Union Bank of Switzerland Closing prices In SwlSB francs on the Zurich Stock Exchange yesterday: UBS Bearer 3190 65 UBS Registered 610 2 SBC 434 2
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    • 82 14 Reuter Copenhagen, FridayOffshore drilling for oil west of Greenland, scheduled to start on May 15, has been postponed until early June owing to unusually bad ice conditions In the area, it was announced here. A spokesman for the Danish company Grepco, parfc of the Canadian, French,
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    • 56 14 UPI Brussels, Friday Unemployment In the European Common Market Is falling but the number of unemployed women is rising, figures released by the European Common Market's Executive Commission snowed. "The employment situation in all member states, except in Italy, Ls improving," a Commission spokesman said, "but the trend
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  • 146 14 Reuter New Delhi, Friday The Indian government has abolished export duty on all Jute manufactures with immediate effect. A Finance Ministry announcement said that the government had already abolished the export duty on major jute export items like carpet backing, hessian and sacking in the
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  • 438 15 By a Special Writer Motor-racing fans are in for a treat at the Malaysian Grand Prix Jointly organised by Rothmans and the Malaysian Motor Sports Club at Batu Tiga, Kuala LumDur, this weekend. The main event. Grand Prix for cars, is being
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 412 15 YOUR LUCKY STARS IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY BORN today, you are one of those explosive person* with whom It Is difficult to establish and a maintain peaceable relationship. This does not mean that you are unable to have and to keep close friends or that good family ties will be
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  • 234 16 Reuter London, Friday Rhodeslan-born Paddy Clift rocked the MCC cricketers when he took their first six wickets for only 12 runs for Leicestershire on the second day of their match at Lord's yesterday. Clift. 22, irom Salisbury, playing in his first full season for Leicestershire,
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  • 2046 16  -  TEE-UP with Lim Kee Chan Three-h undred-and-flfty golfers will tee-off In the Singapore Island Country Club 18-hole fourball best ball stableford Open Day competition at both the Island and New courses on May 1. A total of 66 pairs have been received for the "A"
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  • 381 16 Reuter Hong Kong Friday. Philippines yesterday began their assault In the second Hong Kong International Open tenpin bowling championships capturing first and third positions in the Open Mixed Doubles event. Baby Nepomuceno and Peplng Santos combined for a 1206 to edge out previous leaders
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  • 264 18 Reuter London, Friday Queen's Park Rangers hope tomorrow to keep the English soccer championship open until beyond the Cup final —w h 1 c h normally marks the end of the season. If Rangers, London's lone challengers, beat their visitors, Leeds United,
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  • 217 18 By BLUE PETER Penang, Friday. Toll The Bell (J. Wilson) did a winning gallop on a yielding track here this morning. With Swift Honey (C.H. Tan) for company the four-year-old by St. Alphage was not extended over 600m In 36.8. Ganelon III Joined
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  • 744 18  -  by DON REVIE talking to Jason Tomas DON REVIE Don Revie today looked intently into his crystal ball, and forecast success for Wales' and Southampton, the European championship and FA Cup underdogs. Wales face mighty Yugoslavia in the first leg of their European championship quarterfinal in
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  • 25 18 The doctors from Singapore Armed Forces beat their counterparts from Alexandra Hospital 2-0 in the annual InterHospital Doctors' soccer tournament at Alexandra yesterday.
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  • 507 19  -  AROUND THE SCHOOLS By BRIAN MILLER In a match that lacked the fire and excitement of a final, Swiss Cottage beat Rangoon Road 2-0 to take the 1976 National Schools Secondary hockey title, at the Padang yesterday. For Swiss Cottage, the tournament was
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  • 543 19  -  By PHILIP TAN Catholic Junior College bounced back into contention for the National Schools Post Secondary soccer semi-flnal berth when they defeated a tough Bukit Merah side 2-1 at Farrer Park yesterday. CJC, the defending champions, turned on a fine display of constructive football
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  • 690 19  -  By JEFFREY LOW Cedar Girls' Second a r y, Singapore's leading girls school in athletics, had a successful annual meet despite wet weather almost spoiling a show of talent yesterday. The enlightening thing about the development of athletics in Cedar and the show of
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  • 40 20 MEI LIN: I wonder what the intention of the two robbers was when they chatted up their victim for two solid hours before robbing him. AH FOOK: They must be neurotic or they had time on their hands.
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